Certain situations 8, others 2..varies greatly whilst holding a steady disdain for idiotic blanket emo misanthropy that people nurture within themselves in the place of self esteem or any kind of human worth.

Cynicism born of insight is useful if it keeps you honest, gets you motivated or makes you more idealistic – if it squeezes out all of your natural hope and faith in humanity then you’ve allowed it to go too far.

Cynicism born of ignorance is when you refuse to engage with a subject to protect your own limited, self-absorbed perception. For example, vox-pops in which the man on the street says something like, “All politicians are the same, it doesn’t matter who I vote for.” It’s used as an excuse to justify a passivity by people that don’t want to take responsibility for their own thoughts.

That’s just my off-the-cuff response, like, so my argument may be riddled with flaws.